Book of Common Prayer | London, 1739, contemporary black morocco gilt

Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David... (The whole book of Psalms... by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others...). London: John Baskett, 1739 (A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1737)

2 parts in one volume, 4to (248 x 183mm.), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, contemporary navy morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, some light foxing, extremities very slightly rubbed

LITERATURE

ESTC N475163 (listing one copy only, in the National Art Library); Griffiths, BCP 1739/2

PROVENANCE

Cornwell House, ink stamp on flyleaf